Psalms 139

REFLECTIONS UPON PSALM CXXXIX.—In the faith of these things let me always live, and always act, whether in religious or in civil affairs, under the deepest impressions of God’s eyes, upon me, his perfect knowledge of my heart, my thoughts, and deeds; of his all-filling presence ever with me, to witness, support, or comfort me; of his marvellous formation of me in nature and grace; of his new covenant marriage to me, and his everlasting redemption of my soul. Let my whole life, night and day, be filled up with precious, fixed, and delightful, thoughts concerning these things, and with holy improvements of them. Let me never make the Lord’s enemies my intimates. They who hate God, hate his name and image wherever it appears. Let me therefore hate the ways of sinners while I have true love and pity to their souls. And let a thorough cleansing from sin, and progress in holiness, be the earnest desire and ineffable delight of my soul